NEW: Trump to reopen Alcatraz for 'most ruthless and violent offenders'
Fox News' Madeleine Rivera reports the latest on the president's plan to rebuild Alcatraz and the 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts react
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'SHAME ON YOU': ICE leader scolds sanctuary cities resisting Trump's deportation laws
Acting ICE director Todd Lyons calls out a 'false narrative' about his agency after cities cancel their Cinco de Mayo celebrations and discusses 'troubling' security breaches
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SECRET FILES: Biden admin kept ‘disinfo’ dossier on Americans
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce discusses U.S.-Mexico relations and Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the Biden administration kept a 'disinfo' dossier on Americans on 'The Big Weekend Show
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Trump calls for 100% tariff on films made outside USA
FOX Business' Cheryl Casone and Fox News contributor Joe Concha join 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why the president is taking action against foreign-made films
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https://youtu.be/gue9PahrYog
Mark Levin: Donald Trump must win this fight
Fox News host Mark Levin gives his take on the legal challenges facing the Trump administration on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin.’ #fox
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https://youtu.be/C0wyBfy2tqY
5 May, 2025 06:27
US gave Ukraine just ‘enough arms to bleed’ – ex-CIA chief
Ralph Goff says Washington feared nuclear retaliation and deliberately prolonged the conflict
The United Statesdeliberately restricted military aid to Kiev in order to let the country “bleed”rather than “win,” a former senior CIA official has claimed, describing the strategy pursued by then-US President Joe Biden during the early stages of the conflict.
Ukraine has repeatedly requested advanced American weapons systems that were initially withheld or delayed by Washington.
In an interview with The Times published on Friday, Ralph Goff – former head of the CIA’s operations in Europe and Eurasia – said Biden was reluctant to send the necessary equipmentdue to fears that Russia “will go nuclear.” He argued that the decision to hold back key weapons turned the conflict into a prolonged and devastating war.
“Had we equipped the Ukrainians at that time with proper weaponry,they might have been ableto drive the Russians all the way out of the country,” he said. “It didn’t happen. It set the stage for this longer, protracted, drawn out, meat grinder war that we are witnessing today.” (That would never have happened, Russians never give up, look at WWII)
The former CIA officer, a vocal supporter of Kiev, lamented that Western governments had “allowed themselves to be bamboozled by Vladimir Putin and his nuclear-saber rattling.”
“So they gave the Ukrainians this weaponry, but they never gave them enough to win. They only gave them enough to bleed,” he added.
He also relayed a warning from a Ukrainian official who predicted thatwithout a ceasefire, the front line would become an “incredibly lethal environment” by late summer. “It will be a 20–50km death zone,” Goff said, quoting the official, “where you can’t move because there are so many drones in the air and robots on the ground and sensors and mines.”
The Biden administration provided more than $174 billion in aid to Kiev following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, including dozens of military packages.
The approach shifted under Donald Trump, who returned to office in January. His administration has pushed for direct negotiations between Moscow and Kiev and reportedly proposed a peace plan that includes the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and a freeze along the existing front lines.
Under the proposal, Moscow would retain control over parts of the four former Ukrainian regions that have voted to join Russia.
Russia has said it is ready for talks “without preconditions” and announced a 72-hour ceasefire for the Victory Day holiday. The proposal, however, has been rejected by Vladimir Zelensky.
Moscow has stressed that any agreement to end hostilities must reflect territorial realities and address the underlying causes of the conflict, including Ukraine’s NATO ambitions and the continued delivery of Western weapons.
(No wonder Goff is ex CIA!)
https://www.rt.com/russia/616782-us-gave-ukraine-just-enough/
5 May, 2025 08:30
Zelensky testing US patience – jailed MP
The Ukrainian leader realizes Washington still needs him and he is becoming more authoritarian, Aleksandr Dubinsky has said
Ukrainian leader VladimirZelensky is testing America’s tolerance for abuses of power by sanctioning his critics, jailed Ukrainian MP Aleksandr Dubinsky has said.
Last week,Zelensky announced measures targeting his former top adviser Aleksey Arestovich, historian Konstantin Bondarenko, who published a biography of the Ukrainian leader, titled “The Joker,” andseveral other journalists and political analysts. Penalties have included asset freezes, restrictions on trade and financial transactions, travel bans and the revocation of state awards.
“By imposing sanctions against media people and political scientists,Zelensky is also testing the US tolerance for his dictatorship,” Dubinsky, who was detained by Kiev authorities in November 2023 on charges including high treason, wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday.
The fact that the restrictions were announced a day after the signing of the minerals deal between the US and Ukraine was no coincidence, he suggested.
Zelensky is trying to find out “if there will be any reaction” to such a move from Washington when “the agreement is signed, but not yet ratified” by Ukraine’s parliament, the ousted legislator wrote.
The deal, which was agreed upon on Wednesday after months of difficult negotiations, established a joint investment fund and gave the US preferential access to Ukraine’s natural resources.
The American security guarantees which Zelensky’s government had been demanding were not part of the agreement, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal.
=“Furthermore, Zelensky is also needed to sign the peace treaty [with Russia]. This gives him the opportunity to test the limits of what is allowed. Europe is satisfied with him, and the US seems to be satisfied with him now too==,”Dubinsky stressed.
The Ukrainian leader sees the situation as an opportunity to get rid of his political opponents, he added.
Legislators from Zelensky’sServant of the People party, who are “joyfully applauding the tyranny… do not understand that they are next. A dictator does not need fellow travelers, he only needs a show of force,” the MP wrote.
Zelensky remains in power in Ukraine despite his presidential term officially expiring last May. He canceled the election citing the martial law he had imposed due to the conflict with Russia. In mid-April, the Ukrainian leader prolonged the emergency measures another three months.
https://www.rt.com/news/616785-zelensky-us-ukraine-arestovich/
5 May, 2025 09:12
Trump claims Putin won’t talk to EU leaders
The US president has said top Western officials are urging him to maintain communication with the Kremlin
US President Donald Trump has claimed that EU leaders are imploring him to engage diplomatically with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the Kremlin allegedly refuses to respond to their calls.
The Trump administration is acting as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to broker an end to the ongoing conflict. Most European NATO members have pledged continued military support to Kiev, with some discussing potential troop deployments to the region.
Trump emphasized his role as a mediator during an interview with NBC News on Sunday, stating,“Do you know that the European Union leaders have asked me to call Putin so many times? Because he doesn’t return their phone calls.”
He remarked that his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, had not reached out to Putin at all, seemingly referencing the period following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. Trump said hisadministration is “closer with one party, and maybe not as close with the other,” regarding a peace agreement, without specifying which is which. (Russia since he didn’t name it.)
Moscow has consistently expressed a desire to resolve its differences with the West through diplomatic means, although its proposals concerning NATO expansion in Europe were dismissed in 2021.The Russian government had been open to engaging with EU leaders, notably German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who reached out to Putin last November. Kiev criticized Berlin for the move, which it labeled a form of appeasement towards Russia.
Russia aims for an indivisible security framework in Europe, where the safety of one nation cannot come at the expense of another, Putin stated during a government meeting in February.
“We understand that not everyone welcomes the revival of Russian-American contacts. Some Western elites are intent on perpetuating global instability, and those forces will attempt to undermine or sabotage our dialogue,” he added.
In March, Russian Foreign Minister SergeyLavrov criticized French President Emmanuel Macronfor publicly stating hiswillingness to talk directly with Putin but never acting on it.
(If they are asking Trump to call Putin to relay their message, their message is a threat, and a trap for Trump! Maybe the EU should give back the $3 Billion from their sovereign wealth fund and stop giving it to EU countries!)
https://www.rt.com/news/616788-trump-putin-eu-leaders/
4 May, 2025 21:56
Ukraine critic wins Romanian election first round rerun
Right-wing candidate George Simion is leading in the polls with more than 40% of the votes
George Simion, a critic of the EU who has been banned from entering Ukraine, won the first round of the rerun of the Romanian presidential election on Sunday.
With more than 95% of the ballots counted, Simion, the leader of theright-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), received 40.52% of the votes, according to the news website G4 Media.
Former Senator Crin Antonescu and Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, both known for their pro-EU views, each received a little over 20%.
“This is not just an electoral victory, it is a victory of Romanian dignity. It is the victory of those who have not lost hope, of those who still believe in Romania, a free, respected, sovereign country,” Simion said after the exit polls were published, according to Reuters.
The vote took place after Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the results of the election held in November, in which independent right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu received 23% of the votes.
The court cited “irregularities” in Georgescu’s campaign, as well as intelligence reports claiming that the Kremlin had meddled in the election. Moscow rejected these claims of interference at the time as “anti-Russia hysteria.”
In March, the Central Electoral Bureau barred Georgescu from running again, citing his alleged “anti-democratic” and “extremist” stance, as well as a failure to comply with electoral procedures.
On Sunday, Georgescu and Simion arrived at a polling station together. “We are here with a single mission: to restore constitutional order and democracy,” Simion told reporters.
In November 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that Simion had been blacklisted for his “systematic anti-Ukrainian activities, which contradict the national interests of Ukraine and violate its state sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Simion argued that he was targeted because of his “promotion of historical truth” among the Romanian minority in western Ukraine. He was also banned from entering neighboring Moldova, which he labeled “an artificial country” that “will never join the European Union.”
Simion has opposed the delivery of weapons to Kiev. “We will not send military aid to Ukraine, and that doesn’t make us pro-Russian,” he told reporters last year.
He has also criticized EU bureaucrats. “The EU is a remarkable project that brought peace to Europe after centuries of war,but Brussels has become a greedy and corrupt bubble,” according to the politician.
https://www.rt.com/news/616777-romania-simion-elections-won/
Călin Georgescu’s Replacement in Romania, George Simion Wins First Round of Voting in Critical Battle Against EU Intelligence Apparatus
May 4, 2025 | Sundance |
The original winner of the previous Romanian election in 2024, Călin Georgescu, was removed as the election winner and barred from ever running againbecause Georgescu did not support the EU security state and did not want war with Russia. The election was thrown out because the wrong person won the vote of the Romanian people.
A second election was organized, and the man who represents the voice of Călin Georgescu, George Simion, has won the first round.However, do not get too excited; remember, NATO is building their biggest military base in Romania, and they will not accept any impediments.
Like Moldova, the second round will likely see massive numbers of “Romanians voting from abroad” to help shape the final result.The people living in Romania will not technically be the ones deciding the Romanian election.
In the new era of intelligence systems controlling “democracy,” all votes from people with an interestin the matter will be counted in favor of the candidate chosen by the EU national security apparatus.
BUCHAREST — George Simion, the hard-right leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, is projected to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election with around 40 percent of the vote, according to partial results from the country’s election authority.
Simion badges himself as a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement, wants to stop military aid to Ukraineand will leave the EU quaking as another key country threatens to turn its back on mainstream European policies.
“I promise I will always heed the will of the people. I am here to serve Romanians, not the other way around,” Simion said in a statement early Monday.
He will face centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan, who edged out establishment figurehead Crin Antonescu to make it into a runoff on May 18.
Dan won 20.7 percent of the ballots of Romanians voting at home, barely ahead of Antonescu, who received 20.5 percent. But Dan won 26 percent of the votes of Romanians voting abroad, with nearly 80 percent of the polling stations counted. Antonescu only received 7.3 percent of the votes abroad.
[…]The election results are being closely watched in Brussels and Washington, as Romania has become the latest battleground between the far right and the political establishment.
[…] Sunday’s vote was part of the election do-over that Romania’s top court ordered in December, after canceling the November ballot over allegations of illegal campaigning and potential Russian interference in favor of Călin Georgescu, an ultranationalist firebrand who came out of nowhere to win the first round.
That was the first time a candidate backed by a mainstream political party did not make it into the second round. Georgescu was set to face reformist Elena Lasconi in the second round. Lasconi, whose center-right Union Save Romania party leadership abandoned her to support Dan, only received some 2.8 percent of the votes of Romanians voting at home, according to the partial results.
Simion hoped to harness the election support Georgescu built last yearby saying he’ll have a job for him, even possibly as prime minister.
“We are approaching an exceptional result, far beyond what the system’s TV channels present, which stirred up division, sprayed venom and distorted everything I said,” Simion said in a message projected at his party’s headquarters after the exit polls were released. (read more)
“All your elections are belong to us”…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/04/calin-georgescus-replacement-in-romania-george-simion-wins-first-round-of-voting-in-critical-battle-against-eu-intelligence-apparatus/
President Trump Delivers Brutally Honest Impromptu Presser Aboard Airforce One
May 4, 2025 | Sundance |
President Trump was returning to Washington DC from Mar-a-Lago, when he stopped by the assembled press pool for an impromptu presser. I wish the background airplane audio was not so loud, but the remarks from President Trump were awesome.
President Trump is brutally honest in his remarks about trade deals and tariffs saying there’s no reason for him to rush or even want to sign a deal because the only parameters that will exist are the same ones that exist right now, tariffs against all nations who tariff us. President Trump also answered the question about offering military troops to Mexico to destroy the cartel problem. WATCH:
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https://youtu.be/_yO1tk8e_Ac
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/